The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

sentatives, on the oath, the resolution pro-
posing an amendment to the Constitution |
abollshing the registry tax and the prop |
erty qualification was unanimously |
passed.
Mrs. W. j, MANN, wife of one of the pro
prietors of the Richmond Hotel, at Buf-
falo, N. Y, died on the oath from injuries
she received during the hotel fire. This
makes the thirteenth known victim.
THE steamer Scotia, of the Fabre French
line, with a thousand Italian emigrants
aboard, is long overdue at New York,
and it is feared has been lost
UNITED STATES Consul JORDAN and a
number of American residents Of Liver
pool went to the mouth of the Mersey in a
special steamer, on the oath and heartily
greeted ex .Secretary Manning on his ar
rival by the Arizona.
AT Methodist Episcopal donation party
held in school-house at Hittville, near
Utica, n. Y, on the night of the 3d. the
floor gave way and ten or fifteen persons
were severely injured, being bruised,
burned and scalded, and sustaining frac-
lures of the limbs None Of the injured
persons have died thus far.
MEMORIAL exercises in honor Of the Int
President Arthur will take place in the
Assembly chamber at Albany, N. Y, on
the evening of April %. Ex-Attorney-
General Brewster, of Philadelphia, and
Chauncey NJ Depew will deliver ad-
dresses.
PETER SMITH, who is to be hanged
in the Tombs prison-yarl, New York,
on May 5, for the murder Of John
Hannah, is accused of being guilty of an
even worse crime, namely, the killing OF
his father year before he shot Hannah.
IT is reported that a combination OF
wealthy men, including Senator Payne, OF
Ohio; Erastus Wiman, of New York, and
James McLaren, of Ottawa, Ont, is being
formed to control all the valuable iron
deposits in Canada, now said to be the
richest in the world
Mr.. BLAINE is making tour of the
West
CARTER HARRISON has reconsidered, and
positively refuses to run for mayor of
Chicago
THE Jews of Tunis are still protesting
against the determinations of the new
burial laws.
AMOS JOHNSON, colored, was legally eX-
ecuted at Memphis, Tenn, on the 18th.
EDIMIsToN & WADDELL, agricultural
implements, New York, have failed.
Liabilities, 300, 900; assets, nothing.
A SISTER of the Princess of Wales has be-
come dangerously demented and has been
sent to an asylum.
DR. MCGLYNN is announced fora lecture
IN New York on the ''Cross of New Cru
SADIE"
MAURICE GRAU, the opera manager in
Jail at Quebec, Can, makes an appeal,
stating the financial mlsfortunes which
precipitated his troubles.
JAMES NJ. TRoTTER, the new Recorder of
! Deeds at Washington, d. c., is so i'll that
his life is deSpired Of
ANOTHER railway accident occurred at
Leetonia, o., on the 25th, in which one per-
son was killed and large number in
] jured.
| GOVERNOR MARMADUKE of Missouri has
issued his proclamation calling the Leg
islature together in extra session May II
next.
REPUBLICANS are claiming to have made
some sort of deal with Mr.. Randall on the
tariff question and have called off the
fight on him in Pennsylvania.
EMILY SoADENE, the operate artist, has
sued John McCaull for breach of con
tract, he having discharged her the
other day, after hiring her for the whole
season.
c. NJ. THOMPSON has been arrested al
Muskegon, Mich, charged with bigamy
He is accused of having four living wives
three of them in Ohio
The grand jury at Chicago returned ff-
teen or twenty indictments against county
"boodlerS" on the 25th, but names of the
indicted were not made public.
The Central High school at West Rich
field o., was burned on the 25th. Loss
about 900. The fire, it is said, origi
mated from defective heating apparatus
JACOB KAHN, of New York, died at the
Fitch Hospital, Buffalo, N Y, at noon OF
the 25th, making fourteen victims of thu
Richmond Hotel fire.
VINCENT DE BAUERNFEND, an Austrian
who served under Kossuth in the Hun
garian revolution and came to this couu
try as an exile, died on the 18th at Rolla
Mo.
The two Italians, Geraci and Deluca
who were arrested in Philadelphia on thu
charge of defrauding Washington jewel
ers out of goods valued at Sl,50O, wer,
on the 25th held in $500 bail for appear.
anCe.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Pension
Office shows that there are now pending
before that Office awaiting examination
2SL 49, applications for pensions. Claims
are presented at the rate of about g. 900
week, and an average OF 2,5)) a week ar
finally adjudicated.
A MANSFIELD co. syndicate, of whic
Senator Sherman is at the head, about 81
weeks ago paid $4,000 for 100 acres O
land one mile north of Findlay, the centr
of the Ohio gas fields. On the 18th Sher
maR's agent at Mansfield was offere
100000 for the land, but declined.
! JONI Kapples, who arrived in Chicag
/ from Boston on the 9th was found dea
in his bed on the morning of the 18th, hay
ing been suffocated by escaping gas. h
blew out the gas on retiring. He was o
his way to Wisconsin, in company wit
his married daughter.
A BILL has been passed by the WiscoI
sin Legislature requiring railway con
panies to furnish annual passes to legisl;
tors, State officers and members of court
of record.
1T is estimated by railroad men tn;
with the enforcement of the Inter Stat